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    Question Glamorgan Mental Hospital, Bridgend

    Would there have been an inquest following a patient's suicide at the Mental Hospital in Bridgend in 1929? If so, where would it have been held and would it have been reported in the newspapers?

    Would I be able to get access to the patient records somehow?

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    Hello
    This tells you what records are available and where https://www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/...?coll_id=76330

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    For the whereabouts of hospital records, use the Hospital Records Database (worth bookmarking)

    https://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/

    Carry out a search and you should get to here...

    https://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/...chdatabase.y=0

    and to here...

    https://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/...chdatabase.y=0

    Seems confusing to have two entries but if I could be bothered to read it all, it would probably become clear

    There's a note about clinical records.

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    Most mental hospital records are closed for 100 years - at least those in Gwent Archives are.
    Sadly, our dear friend Ann (alias Ladkyis) passed away on Thursday, 26th. December, 2019.
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    Thanks, Peter. The second database entry says that the Clinical and Personal records for the period in question are at the Glamorgan Archives. It doesn't state whether they're open or sealed, though.

    I'll have to ask the Archives.

    Would there generally have been an inquest following a suicide in an asylum in 1929? Or would the attending clinician simply have certified the death?

    A few days after the death, one of the local papers (The South Wales Voice) reported, "The death has taken place in a Nursing Home at Pyle ... ... Deceased has been confined to his bed for many weeks, suffering from a nervous breakdown." I like the euphemism "Nursing Home at Pyle" (Pyle and the asylum are 6 miles apart in distinct localities).




    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Goodey View Post
    For the whereabouts of hospital records, use the Hospital Records Database (worth bookmarking)

    https://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/

    Carry out a search and you should get to here...

    https://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/...chdatabase.y=0

    and to here...

    https://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/...chdatabase.y=0

    Seems confusing to have two entries but if I could be bothered to read it all, it would probably become clear

    There's a note about clinical records.

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    "Closed" means you aren't allowed to browse through the files. It does not mean that your ancestors records are inaccessible to you.

    You can ask for a copy of your ancestor's documents under Freedom of Information. Archives have their own standard procedure for handling these requests and I would advise seeking their advice.

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    ~shudders~
    I remember looking at industrial school admissions in Glamorgan archives. The archivist didn't visibly show the axe she was holding ready to chop off my fingers if I strayed to the next page, she just breathed heavily in my ear and filled my head with her awful perfume. Guaranteed to make a person be as quick as possible
    Sadly, our dear friend Ann (alias Ladkyis) passed away on Thursday, 26th. December, 2019.
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    Question Help with transcription, please

    Here's the cause of death on the Death Certificate.

    I think the top lines read "1a Cerebral Softening, 5 months" then "no P.M. / Certified by D Finlay, M.D.".

    Can anyone help with the 3rd line, please? I can't make it out.


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    Organic Insanity.

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    Sounds like maybe they had what today we would call dementia.


    As a doctor has certified the cause of death, I don't believe that there would have been an inquest, because he is effectively saying he knows what caused their death.

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